Margi Prideaux has written about wildlife, international politics, and law almost every day for the past thirty years. As an international negotiator and independent academic, with a PhD in wildlife policy and law, her words have been tuned to inform policy audiences in over twenty different international conservation processes. She has five books and her shorter musings are regularly published in Dark Mountain, openDemocracy, Live Encounters, Wildlife Articles, AlterNet, Global Policy, and Ecologist. Having lived and lost in Australia's 2020 Black Summer fires, she now writes because she believes time has run out.